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USD Coach Told Status In Je pardy By ,JOU,',. ;\le DO 'ALD The an Diego Union learned y t1·1·dav that the Univer i v f San Diego Athletic Board of Control may relieve Bob Mccutch- eon or his athletic directoe- ship and dismiss him as head football coach at the end of the season. Gil Kuhn . chairman o! the board. admitted that the group has i:liscusscct the disposition ot McCutcheon but that no de. ci ion has b!'en 1·!'ached. •·we have discussed the sit- uation with :\IcCutc-heon," Kuhn 1·eport!'d, "and I believe \\C mlg t have information eonccrnmg the matter in three or four days." Rev. John B. Bremner, di- rector of publicity, said, how- ever, that a decision has not been reached nor has \he date for decision been set. NOT CERT IN I Rev. J Walshe :-.rurrny, a h- letlc l'0Ordinator, said lie told I Cutcheon: "It is not cer- ta111 that your contra t will he t Cf'ewcd and it is not cer- tain it will not be renewed but It is more probable lt \\ ill not." 11,:Cutcheon said thi , ·as I the fir t that he had heard of the possible dismissal. •·r have done an excellent job from the mess out here," he aid, "I ga\·e up work of nine ) ears at Antelope Valley to come here. •·r am displeas<'

tudent body and the staff be-1tain Bob • lcCutcheon·s fate as hind me but all of this isn•t,newed, but it i football coach at the Univer- enough to buck the athletic able that the JJ sit) of 'an Diego may be de• control," the coach remarked. renewed." "Th 11· r. JohnL ose w ite collar men on d(•nt of th. cided o1 er 1 'le weekend.

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ght that he may be Q way ou • He natural y was SUI pri ed. The boa ad t in ectet Wednesday night an had spilt on a vote. "This is all news to me," / he said "I think I have done an excellent job under the circumstances a.nd this is the thanks I get." The coarh was quick to take offense at a published state- ment by Kuhn, particularly to a reference of him being an "outlaw coach." The statement quoting Kuhn, said. ·•we had a hard time scheduling other col- leges. Before we could discuss contracts, we were asked who our coach was. The teams ! wouldn't play us because they said we had an 'outlaw coach.' Whittier and Redlands can- cellrd games because of this." ":vly presence at VSD had nothing to do with thf Pioneers not getting a game with Whit- tier," Mccutcheon said. •·we never had a game with Whit- tier because Gil Kuhn neg- lected to answer their corre- spondence before I rame here. I just pic:ked p the loose ends and I can 1ell you there were a lot of them." · ''Before I would sign ,a con- tract, I was assured this was a long rane:e building program and that I would grow with ' the sch In fact. 1 1.1.as as-

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t: lll\'Prsity or an Di · o offi -iaL admitted last ni"ht that the ·<;hool's athletic director nd football co7ich Bob MeCutcheon, mav nol b rehirrd when his e~ntract e pire~ in Deeembe1. l 'D Athletic Board of Control has advised • IcCukheon o( his doubtful status. official.· said.

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Masquer.a, [hespians of the University of San Di 'a College • for Men, \\fl! be lhe turbulent and gusty comedy•m lodrama, " ta.lag 17,' by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trxci kl. 'rhis t nse three-act play of World War II and a sadis• c prison camp \\ill be presenLed nighUy at 8:30 in the Balboa Park Puppet Theater, Novem!Jer 6, 7, and 8. Veteran Masquer John Bowman will play the lead rote f Sefton, U.S. Army prisoner of war, 'l'his part was played by John Ericson both on Broadway and on tour, and by Willi m Holden on the screen. Bowman twice has won the a.nm1a1 Masquer award for best supporting player In '57 for his work in "Home of the Brave" and last season for an outstanding performance in the annual Passion Play at the Balboa Organ Pavilion. Other seasoned Masquers in "Stalag 17'' are Ron House, Richard Shea, Barry Vinyard, and James Warg!n. Rev. Leo F. Lanphier directs. The play is the fast-moving story of a group of Ameri- can l!Oldiers in a German prison camp, Stillag. Their barracks is No. 17, and their one objectiv1;1 Is escape_ The conflict of soldier personalities plus the e~losive climax of the escape plot creates tense excitement and suspense. 0 ders USD Coach Status Cloud Remains • 1n By l\lEL ZIKES Bob Mccutcheon, University of San Diego football 1coach, has his Pioneers hack on the practice field t-Oday, getting them ready for Saturday night's game against [ Colorado Western State, still not knowing wheth r he'll have a job next year or not. j One source very close to the scene, who ehose o ;,11;sai~ut~~e; O t~~d. sa:~ I USD ROMPS wnn't be back." Such may be the case. If that big end to be upcoming, but if there, (George Coggins) were the is one for today, tomorrow)boys who killed us," said or a week from Thursday it,coach• Joe Huston of Lewis isn't known. . Orre thing is certain- h i s and Clark after his lads fr~m team is in back of McCutch- Oregon suffered a 33-0 white• eon all the way. wash job from the University The Pioneers were "fired- of San Diego. up" Saturday as a result of "How about that Coggins the announcement that Mc- ?ff Cutcheon was on his way out, and (Bob) Keyes• laughed taking apart Lewis and Clark, USD coach Bob MCCutcheon 33-0, in a game which had when the Saturday game in be.e? ca!led "even" before the Balboa Stadium wa-• ~iJ I hed. rnitial kickoff. . Keyes, the formrr Juni r PlayPr~ Sign Lette,· collei;e All-American, ran for . Evc-ry member of the team 209 yards in 17 carries, sco - signed a letter to Ml:Cutch- ing three touchdowns in h eon, which said in part, "We process, one on a,1 8 -yard are l;iehind you 100 per cent jaunt. 1and are proud to s~y th'."-t we Coggins recover~ 1w o are p<\rt of the University of Lewis and Clark fumbles wa San Diego team coached by the fifth man in the o/egon- Bob 1\1:cCutcheon." ians' backfield all a ~rnoo McCutcheon had a 6-3 rec- and made at least tour k ord at USD last year. This tackl<'s. season his mark is 3-1. The Keyes set a school reco Pioneers have lost only to of th uchdowns in one Montana f'-tate College, th<'j'game whM he plunged t o Heventh-ranked small college yards for th third-quarter team in the country. TD.-M. Z. so, he'll be one of the few winning coaches ever let go. No one will say officially, at this point, for it seems that a premature announce- ment may have upset the ap- plecart, Team Backs Coach Meetings of the USD Board of Athletic Control are said Coggins, Keyes 'Kill' Lewis-Clark .. . Keyes and

McCutcheon's Job In Doubt (Continued) discuss contracts, "e ,, ere asked \'ho was our coach. When told, they replied: ·• 'o we won't pla, you because you have an outlaw coach.' "Whittler and Redlands can- celled games with us because ot thi,." Kuhn also said the board was Informed that '.\1cCutrh- eon's administration on the lield ,, as not good and that he did not get along with oth- er coache . "We do not want to m at all co ·ts. • he added • we I want to face other schools on a sound competitive basis." - ---

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McCufc ,eon- Still Coach, USD Reports Bob 'l\frCutcheon still Is the Umversity of San Diego foot• ball coach, the Re,·. William D. Spain, administrative vice president of GSD, told the Quarterba<'k Club today at its luncheon meeting at San ;Diego . Club. '..\1cCutcheon repo-tedly Is under fire from the u ver. sity's Boosters' Club. Father Spain. in a prepared statement however empha. sized that the Pioneer a Hletic policy • ls neither deterrtt"ned nor controlled by a group of downfu\\n busines~men. "It ls under the ju dktlo of the university's board of re• gents. ' said Father Spain. •·co a c h Bob Mccutcheon has not heen fired by the athletic board of control," he added "To athletic b rd .of con- trol has made no tlccis10n about renewal or can<'ellatlon ' of McCutcheon's contract." McCutcheon's two-year con- : tract expires May 1, 1959 "No member of the West- ern College Associ8.t10n or any of its committ!'es ha : condemned the University ' San Diego athletic program · or ca~t aspersions on the qualifications_ of the U~,i-rer• 1.sity of San Diego coach, Fa- lj ther Spain said. __

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Gausepohl Ready\ For Lewis-Cfark The University of San Diego will attempt to get back on the winning road today but it will be no easy task as it opposes tough Lewis and Clark College from Portland, Ore., at Balboa Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 :30 o'clock. USD's chief attack will cen-1 tcr around halfbacks Bob have had a week to rest fol- Keyes and Toi:n Gates, who lowing their 31-6 beating by h. e been consistent baH car- Montana State while L and C ners. A bright spot will be I the return, at least for limit- was held to a 19-19 draw by ed serdce, of Vic Gausepohl, College of Idaho in its last the club·s leading ground excursion. gainer. I The Oregonians ha,·e a Gausepohl, a Long Beach speedy backfield beefy line City College transfer, has i and a fair pa;sin" attack. averaged 6.4 yards per carry! " in compiling 148 yards. They rank among the top \ Fans will have an excellent small colleges in NAIA offen- opportunity to see, most ot the sive statistics. squad members in action, Lewis and Clark figures to l however, because the game be stronger than the Universi- 1 will be played under the free . . substitution rule of the a- ty of Mextco and New Mexico 'lional Association of Inter- Western, clubs that t:SD has collegiate Athletics. Also, the I beaten, but not quite as tough two clubs only will be able as Montana State. to try for the single-point con- Lewis & Clark P version. r;;;,~~o;ddJlf' [f Le\\is and Clark, with t(1e mm~~ ~lm Li identical nickname o! P10- &~~.,~19clon ~¥ nee rs! hag won. two, lost one ~~;~;.Pm,i RE and tied one while USD has a stodd (1'61 2-1 record. The San Diegans &~~t.J 1~'1 k 1 }~ USEO Reed .t\\ulligon 212 Gardner 231 Clock ,3S Steuben '212 Novaek 217 Yoost 208 Chapman 16 • Keves 186 Gates 191 Wright (186

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/~.:itY/o f EVENING TRIBUNE - --- ' . GENE GREGSTON Evening Tribune Executive Sports Editor The atmosphere turned cool for USD's Bob Mccutcheon before it did for the rest of us over the weekend. Mccutcheon re- ceived a pretty clear indication that his tenure as Pionree coach may be terminated well before he anticipated. Shakespeare may have had McCutcheon in mind when he wrote, "Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound. I prithee, give me leave to curse a bile. O mi. erable age! Virtue is not regarded in handicrafts-men. Who rlid guide, I mean, who set the body anrl 1he limbs Of this great ::;port together, as you guess?" THE Affi'S CHILLY:

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